Powerful 4x4 products I purchased not of merchantable quality as they describe!!!

[Agronaught]

Dropped in and they were helpful on fitting the fairlead. Its on now, but its tighter than i would like and its going to be a bugger to remove.

It will work so ill leave it for now.

[mick.]

But surely the lesser makes would have to conform to the same rules as the big players..... Specially where ADRs are concerned...... All companies are subject to warranty, liability and r&d costs but most don't hike the up price to an extortionate value.

Me personally, I'd save the coin and go get a customized one from someone local, seeing as I don't have an airbag

Don't stroke it, TAP it!!!!.....

Your exactly right.

We have to go though heaps of crap to get our original horse floats built when we started out. We had to make detailed plans, show how our weight distribution would be where the axles needed to be to stop the trailer wagging in the rear, when you fit water tanks you have to follow EPA laws as well.

Liability well you can imagine what would happen if a 4000 tonne trailer came off a car.

Westy I was talking about rear bars not bull bars and I know for a fact there are no crumple zones or any air bar sensors in a rear bar so again there is no way in hell there is $5000 in a rear bar. All the crap you are using to justify pricing of these bars is exactly the same for anything that's on the road and in our case with our floats there is a hell of a lot more in the way of R&D, insurance, Liabilities etc then any rear bar not to mention we have to meet a lot stricter ADRs especially when your talking anything built over 4.5 tonne rating. Then every one of them has to be individually certified t go on the road unlike a mass produced bar.

We are not pumping 1000 a day out of jigs either so there is no way you can explain or justify the ludicrous prices other then another Australian companies ripping off Australians. ARB lockers is another prime example of this. You can buy them overseas cheaper then here and you wonder why no one will buy off the companies.

[BigRAWesty]

But you design a trailer once, and test it once and your good...
These guys are designing, R & D'n, testing and producing up to 4 New, different bars, front or rear, a year...
Im with you that yes prices are a pit exy... But they fit. No if buts or maybys.. they bolt up and work...

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[taslucas]

But you design a trailer once, and test it once and your good...
These guys are designing, R & D'n, testing and producing up to 4 New, different bars, front or rear, a year...
Im with you that yes prices are a pit exy... But they fit. No if buts or maybys.. they bolt up and work...]Westy's Accessories[/URL]

According to the original post, there were lots of ifs and buts, it didnt bolt up, and didnt work!?

Tap, crackle, pop

[BigRAWesty]

According to the original post, there were lots of ifs and buts, it didnt bolt up, and didnt work!?

Tap, crackle, pop

Yea the bar in question didn't, but it didn't cost $3000+ . If it did then yea, massive rip off

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[threedogs]

X 2 Lucas Wandered a tad guys
NO COMPETITION so, if its the only one available,
they can charge what they like I suppose, they are well built, but not designed for towing

[Clunk]

X 2 Lucas Wandered a tad guys
NO COMPETITION so, if its the only one available,
they can charge what they like I suppose, they are well built, but not designed for towing

And because of the price, folk search elsewhere. Not saying they don't have good products but in my eyes they're not worth that sort of money.

Don't stroke it, TAP it!!!!.....

[Clunk]

Just putting this one out there, maybe it's the car that's not straight and maybe the product is ok........

Don't stroke it, TAP it!!!!.....

[threedogs]

True Clunk very true, but not much we the poor consumer can do I suppose

[Maxhead]

You don't have to pay big bucks for quality Australian made product.

I stayed clear of Powerfull and MCC for one reason and that was because they are made overseas and with like lots of products from there there is no QC.
Yeah Kaymar is just a rip off but there are other options.